With coaching experience at Washington State, Boston College and
Auburn, plus a couple of years training Special Forces Soldiers in
the U.S. Army, Casey Kramer was named in December as the head
strength and conditioning coach at Tennessee Tech University.

For the past two years, Kramer, 32, has served as the assistant
strength and conditioning coach at Washington State University,
where his emphasis was with the Cougar football program.

Kramer replaces Chip Pugh, who stepped down in October to take a
position with Collegeside Church of Christ after seven seasons
heading up Tech’s Athletic Performance Center and strength
and conditioning program.

Kramer said his primary goal for the program will be assisting
student-athletes.

“Number one, I want to do what I can to help each and every
student-athlete in every single sport excel physically and build on
their skills,” he said. “I hope to help them develop
characteristics and traits that will translates into wins in the
competitive arena.”

He has been a key member of the staff in working with the WSU
sports medicine staff, providing a link between injury
rehabilitation and performance, as well as planning and developing
strength training and conditioning workouts for short- and
long-term injured athletes.

Prior to WSU, Kramer served as a military tactical strength and
conditioning specialist for the U.S. Army 10th Special
Forces Group at Fort Carson, Colo., a civilian position that
developed strength and condition training programs for elite
Special Forces Soldiers.

He created multi-faceted programs that were effective regardless
of location and could be performed year-round, in addition to
scheduling individual training sessions around military tactical
training schedules. Due to deployments, his physical training
programs were also utilized in a wide variety of locations and with
a wide variety of available equipment.

As part of the position at Fort Carson, Kramer took part in
military training exercises to properly develop needs analysis, and
briefed top U.S. Military officials on the importance of
performance training. The programs he designed and
developed were utilized by Soldiers attending Special Forces
Assessment and Selection, as well as CAG Selection and Ranger
School.

He also spent two years as assistant strength and conditioning
coach at Boston College for two years, from 2008 to 2010, where he
worked closely with the football program. That position followed
two years as graduate assistant strength coach at Auburn, where he
worked with football, softball, women’s basketball, baseball,
women’s soccer, and women’s gymnastics.

His first position in the field was as a student intern strength
and conditioning coach at Northwestern Oklahoma State University,
where he received his bachelor’s degree in 2005 in Health and
Physical Education.

He spent one season as the head strength and conditioning coach at
Fort Scott (Kansas) Community College, where he also served as
tight ends coach for the football team.

Kramer is a member of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning
Coaches Association (CSCCA), the National Strength and Conditioning
Association (NSCA) and the Association of Tactical Strength and
Conditioning Instructors. He is Strength and Condition Coach
Certified, and also certified in First Aid and CPR, and Modern Army
Combatives (MAC-P) Level 1.